Two thoughts on the death of J.D. Salinger

...would it be perverse to suggest that they have a public viewing so that the public that has longed so much to see him for the past however many years could get a good, long look at him?

In junior year of high school, we read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Catcher in the Rye by Salinger. I believe I was the only one in the class who preferred Hawthorne. I'm still right.